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J. W. TREW PACKAGE LINER Filed Jan. 17, 1951 2 SheetsSheet 2 srares Patented Sept, 12, 193E PACKAGE LINER Application January 17, 1931. Serial No. 509,488

'2' Claims. (01. 217-3) tartan rsur iner This invention relates to package liners and more particularly to a liner especially designed and intended for use in connection with baskets to be filled with fruit or the like, and it is an 5 object of the invention to provide a liner of this kind with means whereby the upper end portion 7 thereof or flaps arranged at the upper part of the liner may be readily drawn over the basket content to protect the top layer of such content against mutilation by the basket top or lid, and which means also serves to materially increase the esthetic value of the pack and more especially when the lid or cover of the basket is removed.

The invention also has for an object to provide a liner of this kind which is provided along one end with a series of extended flaps together with a member threaded through the flaps to provide means whereby the flaps may be readily drawn inwardly to overlie the marginal portion of the top layer of the package content to increase the esthetic value of the package and at the same time to efiectively protect the top layer of the package against rim cut or kindred inury. The invention consists in the details of construction and in the combination and arrangement of the several parts of my improved package liner whereby certain important advantages are attained and the device rendered simpler, less expensive and otherwise more convenient and advantageous for use, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth.

The novel features of my invention'will herein- ,after be definitely claimed.

In order that my invention may be the better understood, I will now proceed to describe the same with reference to the accompanying drawings, wherein:-

1 Figure 1 is a view in perspective illustrating a package comprising a liner constructed in accordance with an embodiment of my invention,

the upper portion or flaps of the liner being inwardly arranged over the top layer of the pack- 5 age content;

Figure 2 is a side elevational view of the liner as herein embodied in applied position within a basket before the upper end portion or flaps thereof have been inwardly disposed; I 0 .,-Figure 3 is a view similar to Figure 2 showing the upper portion or flaps of the liner partially flexed inwardly;

Figure 4 is a detailed sectional view taken substantially on the line 4-4 of Figure 1;

Figure 5 is a view in perspective of the upper portions of the meeting ends of the liner as illustrated in Figure 2 unapplied;

Figure 6 is a fragmentary view in elevation of the upper portion of the liner as herein disclosed with the bending member omitted;

Figure 7 is a fragmentary sectional view taken substantially on the line 77 of Figure 2.

As disclosed in the accompanying drawings, the liner L comprises a sheet of material, such as cardboard or the like, possessing sufiicient strength to be applied within a basket B or other container to eliminate breakage of the liner as a result of the pressure imposed thereon by the weight of the basket content C, such as apples, peaches and the like.

As particularly illustrated in Figures 1 and 5, the liner is of a split type with the free end portions in overlapping relation when the liner is applied within the basket B. This lapping of the extremities of the liner permit the same to readily slide one relative to the other to assure the liner having proper placement within the basket B even though the basket be irregular. One end of the liner, preferably the top or outer end, is

provided therearound with the extended and relatively broad flaps 1, each of which at substantially its transverse center being provided with a transversely disposed elongated opening or slot 2. Each of these flaps I initially is coplanar with the subjacent portion of the liner L proper, said flap also being bendable at any, point intermediate its ends in order to assure its proper conformity to the package content with which the liner L is associated. Threaded through the slots 2 of'these flaps 1 is an elongated flexible bending and tying member 3 which may be a cord, tape, or of any otherv character which makes it efiective for the purposes desired. To increase the esthetic value of the package this flexible member 3 may be of a color diiferent from th color of the flaps l. v i

It is also to be noted that by having the elongated openings or slots 2 in the flaps 1 the sliding movement of the member 3 through the flaps 1 is accomplished with a minimum of frictional resistanceand with the result that as strain is imposed upon either or both end portions of the flexible member 3 the flaps 1 will be caused to flex or bend inwardly in a direction substantially radial to the axis of the basket B or kindred container-or envelope in contradistinction to any liability of adjacent flaps 1 as moved inwardly having lateral distortion which would have a and the esthetic value of the package.

In Figure 3, I illustrate the general action of the flaps upon initial strain being imposed upon the flexible member 3 while in Figure l the complete inward fiexure of the flaps 1 is shown, said flaps 1 being in close contact with the marginal portion of the top layer of the fruit and which placement of the flaps 1 together with the bending and holding member 3 materially increase the beauty of the package. The flaps l are maintained in this inwardly disposed or flexed position by tying the end portions of the member 3.

It is also to be understood that the flaps l are of a length to materially engage over the marginal portion of the top or facing layer of the package so that said flaps 1, as is clearly illustrated in Figure l and also in Figure 4, provide an effective means for protecting the top or facing layer of the basket content, and particularly when the same is fruit, against rim cut or kindred injury.

Each of the flaps 1 is also relatively broad to avoid any tendency of the flap to pass between the fruit. In other words, the width of each of the flaps 1 is generally in excess of the major normal spacing between the outer side portions of adjacent fruit. 7

From the foregoing description it is thought to be obvious that a package liner constructed in accordance with my invention is particularly well adapted for use by reason of the convenience and facility with which it may be assembled and 0perated, and it will also be obvious that my invention is susceptible of some change and modification without departing from the principles and spirit thereof and for this reason I do not wish to be understood as limiting myself to the precise arrangement and formation of the several parts herein shown in carrying out my invention in practice except as hereinafter claimed.

I claim:-

1. As a new article of manufacture, a package liner having extended flaps at one'eild, each of said flaps being initially coplanar with the subjacent portion of the liner, and means carried by the flaps and operating upon strain to flex the flaps inwardly of the liner.

2. As a new article of manufacture, a package liner having extended flaps at one end, each of said flaps being initially coplanar with the subjacent portion of the liner, and a flexible member threaded through the flaps to flex the flaps inwardly of the liner upon pull being imposed upon the flexible member.

3. As a new article of manufacture, a package liner having extended flaps at one end, the outer portions of the flaps being provided with transversely disposed slots, and a flexible member threaded through the slots of the flaps.

4. As a new article of manufacture, a package liner having extended flaps at one end, each'of said flaps being initially coplanar with the subjacent portion of the liner, and means engageable with said flaps for drawing the same inwardly of the liner.

5. As a' new article of manufacture, an open package liner, the extremities of which being adapted to overlap, said liner initially being flat, integral flaps extending from a marginal portion of the liner and initially substantially coplanar therewith, and a flexible member threaded through the outer extremities of the flaps, said flexible member being adapted, after the liner has been applied within a package, to draw the flaps inwardly.

6. As a new article of manufacture, an open package liner, the extremities of which being adapted to overlap, said liner initially being flat, integral flaps extending from a marginal portion of the liner and initially substantially coplanar therewith, and a flexible member threaded through the outer extremities of the flaps, said flexible member being adapted, after the liner has been applied within a package, to draw the flaps inwardly, each of said flaps being bendable at any point intermediate its ends.

7. As a new article of manufacture, a package liner having extended flaps at one end, each of said flaps being initially coplanar with the subjacent portion of the liner, and means carried by the flaps and operating upon strain to flex the flaps inwardly of the liner, each of said flaps being bendable at any point intermediate its ends.

J AlVIES W. TREW. 

